Threats And Terrorism In Nigeria

Threats and terrorism in Nigeria

Introduction

Nigeria is a country with more than 188 million inhabitants, it is a state in which tensions between ethnic and religious groups have prevailed and intensified, in the economic field, challenges such as development problems and excessive dependence on oil persist, althoughIt is one of the most stable countries in Africa, but its main conflict to highlight is the growing insecurity, which is a distinctive characteristic of the northern region of this place, where Boko Haram has developed. Boko Haram is one of the most violent and bloodthful jihadist formations in the world.

Developing

The official name of this radical sect or fundamentalist group is ‘Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad’, which in Arabic means ‘people committed to the spread of the teachings and the jihad of the prophet’. However, Nigeria northeastern residents called them Boko Haram, which is where they have the greatest influence. The name translates as ‘Western education is a sin’, thus promoting the prohibition that Muslims participating in political or social activities associated with the West. Since its appearance in 2002 with the growing objective of creating a branch of the Islamic State in northern Nigeria.

An unprecedented wave of geopolitical threats and strategic geo at national, regional and international level has begun, becoming one of the most harmful threats to the international system due to the preponderant fundamentalist side that has resulted in crisis, instability, violence and death, whichhas only taken an unstoppable expansion in recent years.

Today, it is not just a national problem in this state, it has grown unlimitedly, bringing as a reflexive consequence, alliances of the Nigerian government with neighboring countries belonging to the Sahel (Chad, Cameroon, Niger, etc.) Participate in a fight without truce to neutralize this group.

conclusion

Making a call addressed at the same time to the international community, to guide cooperation at any of its possible levels effectively (either through ethnic, regional or even international cooperation), for the solution or functional proposals for limitationof this problem, which is also affecting other countries in the world. Throughout the present investigation, this problem will occur over time, since it has developed within Nigeria, so that it has had an increasing expansion in some Sahel countries and its international repercussions that make it one of the mainThreats to global security.